Read registry

[HippyCraig]

The option to select Access 64-bit registry view is grayed out. Is there a reason I cant access this checkbox?

[kinook]

Oh yeah -- that option is disabled on x86 Windows, since it is meaningless for local registry access, and we didn't anticipate the possibility of accessing a remote 64-bit registry view from 32-bit Windows. We'll see about testing and enabling that scenario. For now, you may need to use VBScript/WMI to access a remote 64-bit registry view from Visual Build on 32-bit Windows.
http://www.google.com/search?q=vbscr...egistry+64-bit

[kinook]

Download, extract and copy the files in http://www.kinook.com/Download/VisBuild82_x86_patch.zip to the System folder within your 32-bit Visual Build install path to enable and use the 64-bit option for remote registry access.

[HippyCraig]

Cool I will try it but I have to create a VM in order to test this out, we have 150 apps prepared for the current build server and I dont want to interupt that process.

I will keep you posted on my testing, again thanks for helping with this!

[HippyCraig]

This works Great!!!!! I was able to recreate the issue in some VM's and its working now.

I was reading more into the help file and I was wondering, if I have a x64 build machine, running either 32 or 64 Visual Build will I be able to access either the 32 bit or 64 hive on a remote 64 bit machine? I assume that if I access a 32 bit machine it should just work.

Another thought, if there was a way on the "Step Starting Event" to set some macro's to determine what hive it access that might be helpful as well.

As always I am so impressed with the level of support you provide!

[kinook]

You can access the 32- and 64-bit registry views from the 32- and 64-bit editions of Visual Build. By default, the 32-bit edition accesses the 32-bit registry view, but can access the 64-bit view on 64-bit Windows by checking the Access 64-bit registry view option. And the 64-bit edition accesses the 64-bit view by default, but it can access the 32-bit view by checking the Access 32-bit registry view option.
http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Ma...adregistry.htm

By "a way on the "Step Starting Event" to set some macro's to determine what hive it access," if you mean that you want to dynamically check the 32-/64-bit options based on a macro, you can use a field override to do that.
http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Ma...htsub=override

[HippyCraig]

Assigning a Macro to a checkbox is exactly what I was looking for, thanks, that's perfect.

Will the new DLL's you provided be put into the main application moving forward? Or will I need to keep these for future releases?